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Tag Archives: Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad
Nashville: The First Day
The Death Ride of the Army of Tennessee climaxed 150 years ago today and tomorrow, as the Union and Confederacy fought one more large-scale battle between the Appalachians and the Mississippi: the Battle of Nashville.
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, USCT, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, A.J. Smith, Army of Tennessee, Franklin-Nashville Campaign, George H. Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, John Bell Hood, John M. Schofield, Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Thomas Wood, United States Colored Troops
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Hood and Forrest in Tennessee
The affair that eventually became known as Hood’s Tennessee Campaign, that cold agony of winter fighting and marching that remains perhaps the synonym for Civil War hardship, began on a sour note. John Bell Hood’s frustrations were three. Firstly, his … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Campaigns, Cavalry, Civil War Events, Leadership--Confederate
Tagged Atlanta, Corinth, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Joseph Wheeler, Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Tennessee Campaign, Western & Atltantic Railroad, William T. Sherman
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